Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (Xbox 360, 2007)

Gameplay: 9.0
As always the controls for this game are perfect and make pulling off high scoring combos really easy. There are so many things that will keep players occupied for an extremely long time, especially when they are trying to make sure their player’s lounge is the best around.

Graphics: 8.7
Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground has a really nice look to it. The three locations where you will be skating look completely different from one another, which is good since they do in real life as well. All of the characters are have very high detail to them, even the pedestrians. The bottom line is that this is one of the best-looking Tony Hawk games that I have played.

Sound: 8.7
The Tony Hawk series has always been great at is the sound department. The developers always have the latest music, realistic sound effects, and good voiceovers and this game is no exception.

Difficulty: Medium
If you have ever played any game in this series you will feel right at home with the controls. From the minute I first booted up the game I was doing huge combos. The game really gets only as hard as you want to make it, trying to get the “sick” score out of each goal will be hard, yet just getting the normal one is easy.

Concept: 8.9
All of the new additions to this game make it a really great buy and even more fun. I really enjoyed having the ability to truly “define” how I wanted my skater to be. The Video Editing will be worth the game’s weight in gold since for those who enjoy that type of thing. Plus, if you look around hard enough you can find arcade machines that have various mini games, including the ability to play “classic Tony Hawk mode.”

Multiplayer: 8.9
Having the ability to seamlessly jump from a single player to an online multiplayer mode with up to eight players is wonderful. I also liked how whatever stat increases you make in single or multiplayer will carry on with your skater. Playing online is always very smooth and lag free, which makes playing it really great.

Overall: 8.8
Even though this year Tony Hawk series had some stiff competition from another skateboarding game, I think that it has edged out ahead and proves that this game is king of the skateboarding games, for at least one more year. There are a lot of things that will keep you occupied for months on end, without even going that in-depth with the “career” mode. If you are a fan of this series then picking up this game is a no-brainer.

The game has some good adventures. The game has good graphics and the people look real. Its cool how the games have advanced in time.

The team at THUMBMONKEY far exceeded my expectations in regards to price, customer service, and shipping. I will certainly pass the word along that THUMB MONKEY GAMES is the place to buy from !!!!!!

I first time played Tony Hawk game Online,its very great versus real player worldwide.only i hate,not possible created female character skater.very great bonus in limited editon is one yearsubtription to Tranword SKATEbording magazine,only in US.not for me,but i dont care for this,im not good english speaker,im from Czech republick.In this game is impresive falling and exspecial trick from previous game like pogo,truckstand and others.very good price for this game is faktor for my verdict buy this game.I advice you to buy this game.region free,played in all version konsole Xbox 360(PAl,JAPAN)and America.

This game is great and lives up to the Tony Hawk game play without all of the loading screens. Though there is no single player free skate the stor is nice. u can pick from three different story angles and do them. The new nail the grab and nail the manual features in the game are great jus need to be available more in the begining of the game. There also is a guitar hero 3 demo in this game with 6 songs and multiplayer capibilities. So this game is good though it has its flaws its still good plus its fun to skate from baltimore to DC without thoes boaring loading screens!!!

More than another tony hawk game, but it is still a tony hawk game. If you enjoyed the last couple of these games then you'll enjoy it, especially due to the new features

brings back memories of the best tony hawk game which was the first tony hawks underground. of course this game is not as good as skate. However it still has the fun that comes with all thps games and thats the material that you can do such as video editor. Not to mention the story mode is realy food.

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I got it just like he dsecribed it. It was Fast, accurately described. The games worked great, no scratches. Fast fast fast....
thank you

It's a really cool game and i like the back ground music its old school breakin type of tracks! Love it! Very happy!

Excellent game. Keep your kids entertained for hours! Even though it is an older game, renting it at the store for 1 week was already $7.00. I decided to buy it on eBay because at Best Buy it was still like $45.00. Shipping was fast, so ....why paid more right?

What a great game to play with my son, I love coming up with new tricks and racing on the skateboard. Fantastic game

Most of the people that I deal with on half.com are slow with shipping and seam not to care like the regular Ebay.I am still waiting for a game that I bought aug.7 its now sept.11 that is messed up

This game goes away from the direction it was heading in previous Tony Hawk games. They have gotten away from a lot of the features like running off your board and easily speeding up you character. Making you work harder to pull off moves just causes frustration to complete the task, and teaches you to never use the trick again. How could a game go from Great game (Project 8), to worst game ever of the franchise(Proving Ground). Project 8 was a great game, but Proving Ground lost with me. Now it makes a perfect coaster for my beverages.

Controls = terrible

Game Play = nothing Special and took away from previous games

Graphics for an HD console = boo

The only way you should get this game is if someone would pay you to take it off his/her hands.

EVERYTHING IS GREAT, SKATER PROFILES, VIDEO INPUT,SKATEBOARD TRICKS, AND KILLER GRAPHICS MAKE THIS THE BEST TONY HAWK GAME SO FAR. IF YOU DO NOT CURRENTLY OWN A COPY OF WASTELAND FOR YOUR XBOX 360... GO AND GET IT

great game, fun for all ages, challenging for even the hardcore gamers, yet still playable for younger less experienced gamers?

I have yet to play it but I know from personal experience that it is going to be a great game. All Tony Hawk's games are fun. This one proves to be more so since the player has more freedom.

I don't know my boys love the game. I purchased it for them, they like skate boarding a play the game all the time.

i like this game a lot. the reason why i brought this game is because im a fan of tony hawk and i have played alomst all of the games.

I love skateboarding, and I love Tony Hawk Games, this is the best Game in the series. the soundtrack could have been better but its still a great game!

Great product, exactly as described. Bought it because it was much much cheaper than used games at the local spots!

If you like wasteland or either undergrounds you probaly wont like this game it is similar to project 8 just not very fun.

great product and super fast shipping was even better than expected extra cheap to
and the rest of this is just to get pass 100 characters on my review